Earlier today, at dim sum with my sister’s eight-month-old daughter: That’s my dad holding Kara while she tries to decide which of the strange new adults (Aunt DeeAnn or Uncle Curtis) she wants to get away from more.
Month: October 2010
Some Weather We’re Having
This is the current view from my parents’ house in southern California. They live on a hill overlooking downtown Los Angeles, but you’d never know it from this shot: Meanwhile, in Portland, Oregon, it was quite sunny yesterday afternoon. I’m…
Friday Flash Fiction: “Division of Labour”
Yes, I know those are rats in the picture, not gerbils. Have you ever tried to find a Creative Commons-licensed photo of two gerbils? And yes, I could have just changed them to rats in the story, but gerbils seem…
Book Report: Boneshaker
Our second Virtual Speculative Fiction Book Club selection was much better than the first. Our second club meeting was also an improvement, since Kathy and Brian were visiting Portland that weekend and we discussed zombies and airships while enjoying coffee…
Postcard #27
You stay classy, Ken and Jerry! I also like how the Postal Service felt it necessary to include a warning about the insufficient postage–but still delivered the card. I guess I’ll just owe them the sixteen cents?
Postcard #26
This is Tiffani‘s first year of eligibility for the Campbell Award, thanks to the publication of her story “If Wishes Were Horses” in Strange Horizons. Her personal life has gone through some unpleasant upheavals recently, but she’s now making a…
Postcards #24 and 25
Why do I feel like I’m uploading assets for an ARG? Anyway, if the pattern starting with Jeff’s first postcard holds, I’m expecting to get at least three more of these. He also sent a postscript by e-mail: “Google Go…
Postcard #23
Tony Choe is one of my oldest friends. We attended high school together, where we shared many experiences–from AP English classes to marching band to Latin conventions to… yeah, yeah, we were a couple of huge nerds. But you know…
SnoutCast #37: “Scouting”
How do GCs pick locations for their Games? We don’t know how others do it, but we can talk about how Team Snout does it. And we do! [ Download mp3 – 34 MB ] 00:58 – “discerning”02:27 – Please…
eBook Report: Wildside
Rescued from the backlist: Steven Gould’s 1996 novel Wildside, now available in eBook format with spiffy new cover, shown above. (Disclosure: I got the manuscript for free, as part of his crowdsource proofreading project; and I probably took longer to…